BEWARE OF BOSSIE

The latest suspect in global warming is Bossie the cow. A Washington State University research project is examining how much methane gas is produced when cows belch.

The idea is to study how changes in diet might reduce the methane emissions from cows, which sounds reasonable. With EPA's involvement, however, we fear that cow-diet changes would soon be followed by proposals to retrofit scrubbers onto cows to reduce emissions.